Orion Windows Undergoing Inspection at Kennedy Space Center

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Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians have removed a side thermal window from one of Orion’s tile panels. (NASA.gov image)

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA — Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians have removed a side thermal window from one of Orion’s tile panels.

The tile panels with thermal windows intact were removed from Orion in the Launch Abort System Facility after the spacecraft returned to Kennedy in late December.

All of the windows are being removed and disassembled for post-flight inspection for any signs of micrometeoroid or orbital debris impacts or other potential glass damage.